Do your shopping from NSC! Each purchase makes a difference to our fair trade suppliers and to the work NSC can carry out. This year’s Christmas card is entitled “Peace for Nicaragua”, there’s a DVD & book about Frida Kahlo and some witty t-shirts and mugs, all ethically produced.
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This Redfish documentary illustrates the complexity of what has happened in Nicaragua and refutes some of the distorted, biased, context free mainstream coverage of the country Nicaragua over the past six months.
An antidote to the international media coverage that choses to blame the Nicaraguan government for all acts
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The US and Israel yet again demonstrated their exceptionalism when on 1 November, the UN General Assembly, for the 27th time, approved a resolution calling for an end to US sanctions against Cuba by 189 to two. Not to be deflected from the path of righteousness, US representative Nikki
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Opportunities to find out first hand what’s happening in Nicaragua In November/December, Nicaraguan National Assembly member, doctor, and trade unionist Dr Florence Levy will be one of the key note speakers at this year’s annual Latin America Adelante Conference in London on 1 December https://latinamericaconference.wordpress.com/
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On 3 October US/Austrian journalist Carl David Goette-Luciak was deported from Nicaragua – an event that sparked outrage from The Guardian and and the National Union of Journalists. https://www.nuj.org.uk/news/nuj-condemns-deportation-of-freelance-journalist-from-nicaragua/ However, what the Guardian and the NUJ fail to mention is that neither Goette – Luciak nor any other journalist
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Sanctions will not only deepen the poverty of those already impoverished but will also deepen the polarisation within Nicaragua making it even more difficult to reach a political settlement to the crisis.
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The Nicaragua Investment Conditionality Act (NICA Act) was first introduced into Congress in 2015 but
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Thursday 27 September, 7.30pm, Shipley. The Tisma Project will host a skype conversation with John Perry who lives in Masaya, Nicaragua, to talk about the unrest of the past 6 months and how it might affect social programmes and twinning links. For details: https://www.facebook.com/vivabradford/
Tuesday 16
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Claudio taught Spanish at NSC from 2007 until 2017 when he became ill. Despite this he kept up his Latin American activism and his passion for philosophy and took up painting again. Many of us kept in touch with him and saw that his love of life, his curiosity, his
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Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign Briefing on Nicaragua As the pressure on the Nicaraguan government intensifies internationally, where - in all the rhetoric of the Trump administration, the UK government, the international media, and human rights organisations - are the views of the most impoverished? Four months of violence and
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